About

Dalton has actively embraced an innovative and progressive tradition for approximately 100 years. Read an introduction from Head of School Ellen C. Stein; learn about Dalton's history and founder Helen Parkhurst's Education on the Dalton Plan; view Dalton's mission and values, including the School's intentional commitment to establish equity and diversity, and review Dalton's most recent Strategic Plan.

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Dalton offers its 1,300 students a wide array of stimulating and challenging programs taught by passionate and dedicated faculty. Outstanding academic offerings are complemented by exemplary performing and fine arts curricula – taught by faculty who are professionals in their fields – and a full range of athletic teams and extracurricular activities.

Our Community

Dalton takes great pride in the strength of its engaged and collaborative community. Students , faculty, staff, parents and alumni work together to advance mission, celebrate tradition and enhance school culture. Students and teachers serve on the Board, along with trustees and administrators.

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At Dalton, the primary focus is to nurture children's natural inquisitiveness, develop self-confidence in their intelligence and ability to succeed, and teach them to be responsible and independent learners and thinkers.

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Kaitlyn (Junior)

Posted - 10/9/2017

Over this past summer, I worked in a community lab space to study tardigrades, and most specifically the genes that make them extremophile organisms.

I harvested tardigrades from swampy/mossy areas throughout the boroughs and in parks, and subsequently brought them into the lab, isolated them from the moss and other tardigrades in the culture, and continued from there. The aim of the project was to transplant the tardigrades genes that we believed were responsible for their resilience environments (in terms of temperature and weather) across the world, into other organisms to see if they provided protection from desiccation. The results suggested that the protein could be a valuable additive to bacterial cultures and protein formulations, potentially as a preservative.